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Monday, October 4th, 1999

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished most o day in So. Fork. No pattern to speak o. 3 ish on a moring dawn worm, crankbait and a jig. Largest was a 2lb 12oz spot on a brown and orange jig, in the willows.
      City: Quincy

Sunday, October 3rd, 1999

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 70-71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I fished the afternoon (11 AM - 7 PM) from my tube. Not a great day, but better than just about anywhere else I could be. Cold and windy, too many water skiers, and no topwater bite(DAMN!). I explored a little over by the large dam and caught two around 2 lbs on a brown jig. Had a toad spit spit the jig right back at me near my tube, too. I kicked back and caught three more real small dinks bobbing around just south of the boat launch on small worms.
      City: Mountain View

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      Water Temp: 70-71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I fished the afternoon (11 AM - 7 PM) from my tube. Not a great day, but better than just about anywhere else I could be. Cold and windy, too many water skiers, and no topwater bite(DAMN!). I explored a little over by the large dam and caught two around 2 lbs on a brown jig. Had a toad spit spit the jig right back at me near my tube, too. I kicked back and caught three more real small dinks bobbing around just south of the boat launch on small worms.
      City: Mountain View

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Couldn't find them this time, but will tell you what I tried that didn't work. Cause it was windy and I was in my alum, we spent most of the time hiding out of the wind. Tried lots of worms in red shad and junebug, tight to cover, in the tules, laydowns, stickups, nada. Tried black jigs w/blk&red craw in the wood, weed clumps, and outside weed edge, nada. Even tried a red Bomber 5A on the weed edge. I was really suprised that I couldn't even find a few dinks. So there you have it. A good list of things to NOT try. I'll get 'em next time. Tomorrow. :-)
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: I'm going to try to find some structure in deeper water and go at them with a jig. Also will work the outside weed line a little more thoroughly. My guess is they are schooling;find one look for a bunch.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 71.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tough ishing. Could not ind any reaction ish that wanted to play. Did manage 3 ish in the boat. Fish that were caught came rom the willows, 12-15 t, on plastics.
      City: Elk Grove

Saturday, October 2nd, 1999

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      Water Temp: 71 deg.

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: hunnert ish days are possible with 3 guys in the boat. The ish are on their all eed. Not alot o giants but alot o 13 to 17 inches, the spots are getting bigger with most o the stripers gone. All rocks are holding ish, to get numbers use darthead and our inch worms in green, brown, salt and pepper. To get larger ish use spinnerbait, white and chart., brown 3/8 oz. jig with grub trailer. Flukes are working on mostly smaller ish by the dam. Good ishing or spots but the ramp sucks, no dock and shallow ramp. Watch or shallow rocks, hard on the prop.
      City: sheridan

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 70.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Granite Bay Ran to Rattlesnake beore daylight. Saw ish busting shad and pulled over. Second cast o morning my son DJ hooked up on a skitter pop shad color. Fish were busting and we cast to the ring hook up was guaranteed most o the ish 12-15 inches. Boat on trailer at 10:00 soccer game. Total ish count 24, o the 24, 22 were caught on topwater, 2 were caught on worms, witches T, and shad pro worm. Note that on this saturday morning cloud cover kept things going with a little help rom us.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Now is the time to ish topwater, skitter pop 1/4 ounce shad, any o the pop r's in shad color. Spitn image jr has caught the largest ish lately.

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went on a report that the stripers were boiling, no boils seen. Ended up with 7 ish. 2-13" smallies on top water, 3-13" smallies on split shot, 1-2lbs largemouth on split shot. 1-superdink largemouth on crank.
      City: Sacramento

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished rom bank in angels cove i think? topwaters produced 2 nice ish 3 to 4#ers, bigger ish slapping surace all around, couldn't get anymore to bite. sun came up and nothing else worked top or bottom. new in town with no boat or ishing partners. see alot o bass boats with only 1 person on board, PICK ME UP !!!!!!!!! i you need a ishng partner email me at mjubilee@goldrush.com
      City: angels camp

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished rom bank in angels cove i think? topwaters produced 2 nice ish 3 to 4#ers, bigger ish slapping surace all around, couldn't get anymore to bite. sun came up and nothing else worked top or bottom. new in town with no boat or ishing partners. see alot o bass boats with only 1 person on board, PICK ME UP !!!!!!!!! i you need a ishng partner email me at mjubilee@goldrush.com
      City: angels camp

Thursday, September 30th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of B & W resort to catch the out going tide. Fish around Franks Tract and part of Potato slough. Best 5 went about 12 pounds. All were caught on a Bill Norman crankbait (shad color). Couldn't get the jig or plastic bite to go at all. All in all it was a beautiful day on the water.
      City: Suisun

      Tips: concentrate on the 10ft water range. It worked for me.

Monday, September 27th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 69-73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I started in white slough throwing topwater about 6:30am this morning. The bite was crazy for about 20 minutes using a white frog in open water next to thick tule clumps on the north side. I caught two nice 3 pounders and couple of dinks, most of fish were missing the bait and I would pitch a brown and orange reaper back in to catch them. The topwater bite shut off after the sun was up for about 45 minutes. I switched to a jig, then a crankbait and only caught two small fish in about an hour. I picked up and ran over to five fingers and switched over to a BUMP or a waffle reaper fishing it around wood in deeper water with no action for about 20 minutes. I got around to the south end and the tide was cooking over the last point with wood on it, I flipped out on the end of the longest log and THUMP[the best feeling bite all year for me]. I set the hook and fought out a nice 5 or 6 pounder. Well I cant tell you for sure how big she was because she came undone at the boat. Has anybody else been having trouble with bigger fish coming off or is it just me? Well anyway the rest of the day was slow just a few dinks. FISH ON ! The BIG DOG

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      Water Temp: 69-73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I started in white slough throwing topwater about 6:30am this morning. The bite was crazy for about 20 minutes using a white frog in open water next to thick tule clumps on the north side. I caught two nice 3 pounders and couple of dinks, most of fish were missing the bait and I would pitch a brown and orange reaper back in to catch them. The topwater bite shut off after the sun was up for about 45 minutes. I switched to a jig, then a crankbait and only caught two small fish in about an hour. I picked up and ran over to five fingers and switched over to a BUMP or a waffle reaper fishing it around wood in deeper water with no action for about 20 minutes. I got around to the south end and the tide was cooking over the last point with wood on it, I flipped out on the end of the longest log and THUMP[the best feeling bite all year for me]. I set the hook and fought out a nice 5 or 6 pounder. Well I cant tell you for sure how big she was because she came undone at the boat. Has anybody else been having trouble with bigger fish coming off or is it just me? Well anyway the rest of the day was slow just a few dinks. FISH ON ! The BIG DOG

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fair day today got out at daylite, threw top for awhile, no success, managed to catch 7 fish cranking edges and over weedbeds including a 4.5 and 3.8 rest all 2 to 2.5. had no luck flipping, looked like a crank bait day, caught all on outgoing tide. whites and disapointment.
      City: stockton

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      Water Temp: ~ 70 F

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Hook team tourney on Sunday. Beautiful, warm day. My first team event (only other tourney was a Pro Am). Struggled to find keepers (weighed in one fish). What the heck was I doing wrong? Searched with buzzbaits, cranks, & blades. Fished Big Break, Dutch, & Taylor primarily. Couldn't buy a good bite. Enjoyed the day on the water. Look forward to hearing how others did. Send help by next tourney!!
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: Spend alot more time on the water.

Sunday, September 26th, 1999

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out early in the morning and caught two dinks right off the bat, using a Don Ivino shad pattern spalsh-it.The rest of the day was slow until about 3:00PM, Then my partner caught two nice 2 1/2 pounders on a shad deep diver Rapala. We caught 9 fish on top and deep.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: Enjoy the outdoors and try different lures until you find the right ones. Go on top and deep if you want to catch Bass

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 70s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hadn't been out to Calero on my kickboat in awhile. The wind was tolerable, but lots of boats (one with an a-hole wakeboarder who doused me from behind with a wall of water -- DICKHEAD!!!). Caught a few dinks on a shad-pattern jerkbait & a Deep Little N crankbait, then 3 solid keepers (1-1/2 to 2 lbs.) on a Carolina rig. The fish weren't BIG, but they fought pretty hard! Hadn't used a plain ol' Zoom lizard in awhile ('mossy pumpkin'); I've been using all these newer, latest/greatest, fancy baits of late. However, the old tried-&-true lizard seemed to be the ticket on Sunday. I caught one add'l C-rig fish on a Berkley Pulse Worm in Red Shad finish. No takers on topwater, although the birds were dive-bombing all around me, coming up with little silvery treats hanging from their bills. Head on for that Fall feeding frenzy! (2-day *Clear Lake* float tube tourney with 'Bass-n-Tubes' & the Sonoma County Bellyboat Bass Club is coming up on Oct. 23-24. Call John Lake - 408-263-6174 for details).
      City: san jose

      Tips: shad patterns shallow, or soft plastics in 15-30 ft.

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      Water Temp: 70s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hadn't been out to Calero on my kickboat in awhile. The wind was tolerable, but lots of boats (one with an a-hole wakeboarder who doused me from behind with a wall of water -- DICKHEAD!!!). Caught a few dinks on a shad-pattern jerkbait & a Deep Little N crankbait, then 3 solid keepers (1-1/2 to 2 lbs.) on a Carolina rig. The fish weren't BIG, but they fought pretty hard! Hadn't used a plain ol' Zoom lizard in awhile ('mossy pumpkin'); I've been using all these newer, latest/greatest, fancy baits of late. However, the old tried-&-true lizard seemed to be the ticket on Sunday. I caught one add'l C-rig fish on a Berkley Pulse Worm in Red Shad finish. No takers on topwater, although the birds were dive-bombing all around me, coming up with little silvery treats hanging from their bills. Head on for that Fall feeding frenzy! (2-day *Clear Lake* float tube tourney with 'Bass-n-Tubes' & the Sonoma County Bellyboat Bass Club is coming up on Oct. 23-24. Call John Lake - 408-263-6174 for details).
      City: san jose

      Tips: shad patterns shallow, or soft plastics in 15-30 ft.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Seco and I fished (if you can call it that) The Hook Tourney this weekend. It was a very tuff bite and we struggled. We did get two 2 pounders on crank baits before 8am and then struggled for the next 4 hours without a bite. Our confidence falling we pulled up to a spot and immediately had a 3 pounder on. Allright! 10 Minutes later a 3+ on and our hopes of a limit was back on. Then we nailed a squeeker a few minute later and a huge 7+ pounder followed it up. Damn we get that fish We have a shot at top 10. Then like someone threw a switch the wind hit HARD! I dont think I ever saw it blow that hard within minutes and not stop. Our calm spot was now a 4 foot white cap mess. My trolling motor on full blast could barely keep up. Damn! Our finess bite toast we tried in vain to catch with crank baits. NO dice. I pointed the bow into the wind told Seco to hold on fish hard and I put down my rod and focused on keeping us alive while Seco fished. He nailed a nice fish but we couldn't keep the boat where we wanted. 2 1/2 hours later I was exausted and my right leg was in a knot. We tried other areas but that was the end of our day.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Hook Tournament on Sunday with Mike R. This is a great low cost series. See The Hook web page for details. Best 7 fish went 19.41 with a 5.1 kicker that Mike caught on a black/blue jig. No topwater bite. Fish were on flats adjacent to current in 3-5 ft of water. We stuck with the flooded Islands (Big Break, Sherman Lake, and Frank's Tract). Most fish came on blades fished slow or the jig. We had about 12 fish and 15 bites for the day. It was a tough day. Fish seemed to be schooled. When we found fish we would get 2 or more out of each location.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Search with blades or cranks and when you get a fish slow down and work the area thoroughly. Color did not seem to be critical. Use colors that work for the water clarity you are working. White or chartruse in dingy water and bait fish colors in clearer waters.